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ASBM-1
US Military Missile Tracking Technology Demonstrator · US Missile Defense Agency
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ASBM-1 (Advanced Ship-Based Missile), part of a US Missile Defense Agency satellite pair testing next-generation missile tracking sensors for future ship-based defense systems — technology feeding into the same broader missile detection architecture as the HBTSS and RAPTOR satellites already covered elsewhere in this catalog.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Highly Ellipticalswings far out, then dives back close to Earth
- Altitude
- 4,749–27,318 mi (7,642–43,965 km)
- Inclination
- 62.9°
- One orbit
- 16.0 hours1.5 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 60422
- Int’l designator
- 2024-143A
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 21 Sep 2026.
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